Referring Clues

• Po land
• "Paradise of exiles": Shelley
• Autostrada's place
• Little ___ (part of the Big Apple)
• Europe's "boot"
• Taranto's locale
• Where Rome is home
• Where Soave comes from
• "Enchanted April" setting
• Milan's land
• Sicily's "kicker"
• Where Fiats are made
• Leghorn locale
• Geographical "boot"
• It surrounds San Marino
• Peninsular land
• World Cup powerhouse
• Part of a continental tour
• *Opera ... wine ... boot
• Swinburne's "A Song of ___"
• Lire used to be spent here
• Little ___
• Country on a grand tour
• "Boot" in the Mediterranean
• Birthplace of the Renaissance
• Eco location
• G8 member
• A G8 nation
• Leaning Tower's country
• Adriatic Sea country
• Land of Marconi
• Where Fiats are fashioned
• Country south of the Alps
• Home of the Leaning Tower of Pisa
• "La Dolce Vita" setting
• San Marino surrounder
• Silvio Berlusconi's country
• 2006 World Cup winner
• Po country
• Boot in history class?
• Boot-shaped country
• Rome's home
• Country with a red, white, and green flag
• Center of the Renaissance
• Pisa place
• See 2-Down
• Land of amore
• Milan's home
• Como home
• G8 country
• 1982 World Cup winner
• Galileo's birthplace
• See 56-Down
• Where Orvieto can be found
• Mediterranean boot?
• Land of the Apennines
• One end of the Bernina Pass
• Eco location?
• Sicily's country
• Adriatic land
• Where Venice is
• NATO member
• Home of St. Peter's
• Where some Alps are
• Switzerland neighbor
• Nation in its Second Republic
• Florence's country
• Home of the Colosseum
• Slovenia neighbor
• Land on the Tyrrhenian Sea
• Caruso's homeland
• Lombardy's land
• Where Anzio is
• Boot-shaped nation
• Marco Polo's country
• European boot?
• Land of Milan
• Sophia Loren's birthplace
• Europe's "boot"
• Boot in the Mediterranean
• Land of the Po
• Boot-shaped land mass
• It's shaped like a boot
• European nation
• Country on the Adriatic
• Home of the Sistine Chapel
• Soccer nation
• Where to find Bologna
• Land of Romeo and Juliet
• "The Boot" country
• World Cup participant
• Place for Po people
• Wherefrom Romeo art?
• Location of 1-Across
• Country with a green, white and red flag
• "A Farewell to Arms" setting
• 2006 FIFA World Cup winners
• Livorno's land
• Lake Como's location
• "The Boot"
• 2006 World Cup champion
• Bologna's land
• Country with a da Vinci drawing on its one-euro coin
• Vatican City setting
• 2006 World Cup champs
• It's all around the Vatican
• Member of the Axis
• Autostrada setting
• European footwear?
• Pisa's country
• Austria neighbor
• Its calling code is +39
• Its flag is red, white and green
• Tiber locale
• Pavarotti's homeland
• Venice's country
• "The boot of Europe"
• Apennines locale
• NATO charter member
• Lake Como's locale
• Bologna setting
• Florence's home
• Rome's nation
• Tuscany setting
• Florence's nation
• Neighbor of France
• Milan's nation
• Leghorn's locale
• Europe's boot
• Columbus' home
• European 'boot'
• Frequent World Cup winner
• Frequent World Cup contender
• European country
• Cartographer's boot?
• Turin locale
• Naples' nation
• G-8 nation
• Polo's home
• Little ___ (Manhattan neighborhood)
• Olympics host of 1956, 1960 and 2006
• Vesuvius locale
• Birthplace of this puzzle's subject
• Peninsular Mediterranean country
• Triple-decker treat
• One of the Axis powers
• Po land?
• Neighbour of Austria
• Lake Como setting
• Vesuvius setting
• Where spaghetti westerns are often produced
• An original eurozone member
• Nation with the most Unesco World Heritage Sites
• Tiber's country
• Lombardy's locale
• Opera's birthplace
• 14-Across' country
• Continental boot?
• Neighbor of Slovenia
• Boot-shaped European country
• Turin is in it
• Rome home
• Boot with a heel in the Ionian Sea
• Pisa's place
• Boot-shaped land
• Gondolier's land
• Boot in geography class?
• Rome's land
• Piedmont's place
• Venice's land
• Monaco neighbor
• Rome's country
• Volta's birthplace
• Venice setting
• Roman setting
• Salentina Peninsula country
• Birthplace of the violin
• Cinque Terre locale
• Three-time Olympics host country
• Original pizza place
• Pisa's land
• "A Room With a View" locale
• Palermo's locale
• Frommer title
• San Marino's surrounder
• Pinocchio's homeland
• Where the Po flows
• Florence's place
• Major olive oil producer
• See 43-Down
• Bologna's site
• Country shaped like a boot
• Boot-shaped country in Europe
• Liguria's locale
• Bologna's place
• Odd bits missing in rift valley country
• City centre layabout in the country
• Little ___ (section of Baltimore)
• Berlusconi's country
• Birth country of Amy Adams and Rose McGowan
• Axis power
• Lacuna Coil country
• Pavoratti's home
• Where Lacuna Coil drinks vino
• Country of Bologna, Bari and Brescia
• Original member of the European Economic Community
• Founder member of the EEC
• Where, abroad, the laity are confused?
• Land in hospital, you know
• Four-time World Cup winner
• South European country
• Mediterranean nation
• Mediterranean country
• Winter Olympics host in 1956 and 2006
• European state
• "The Talented Mr. Ripley" setting
• Where "A Room With a View" opens
• Where "A Farewell to Arms" opens
• "You may have the universe if I may have ___" (Verdi opera line)
• Member of our country club (1934, 1938, 1982, 2006)
• Nation, I reckon, disheartened
• Indexer's first list left out country
• One river crossing Latin country
• One chess champion close to victory in European country
• One Grand Master unknown in Shelley's "paradise of exiles"
• Land one left in flower
• Where, abroad, one volunteers to finish promptly?
• Axis member
• Center of Renaissance art
• Amalfi Coast country
• Land of liberated laity
• Where Romano cheese originated
• Paolo Gentiloni is its prime minister
• Home to Florence
• San Remo's site
• Sophia's homeland
• Boot of Europe?
• Milan's country
• Where pasta originated
• Bologna's country
• Where the Renaissance was born
• Capri's locale
• European country that became a republic in 1946
• Rome's locale
• Land required for city centre layout
• Bari's land
• Source of many an imported boot, appropriately
• Lake Como's land
• Four-time World Cup champion
• Land in the hospital yard
• See 15-Across
• Home to Rome
• Chianti country
• Country led by Giuseppe Conte
• Source of prosecco wine
• Florence's site
• Rome's location
• Birthplace of the espresso machine
• Vatican surrounder
• Europe’s “boot”
• Land of the Po (not Poland)
• Genoa's land
• San Marino's surroundings
• Bel Paese's country of origin
• "Romeo and Juliet" setting
• Olympic host country for 2006 and 2026
• Where eyeglasses and espresso machines were invented
• Winner of four FIFA World Cups
• Country
• G7 nation
• Where Serie A soccer is played
• Country where "Luca" is set
• Where 23-Down was coined
• Colosseum country
• Setting of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels
• Naples's nation
• Where the piano was invented
• Emilia's home
• Land of misguided laity
• European boot?
• Country surrounding Vatican City
• Major wine-producing country
• Where, abroad, the laity are confused?
• Where to find Pisa and pizza
• Tuscany's country
• Four-time FIFA World Cup winner
• Home of the Eternal City
• Country that is the world's largest wine producer
• One of three countries straddled by Mont Dolent
• Where Florence is
• Setting for the films "Life Is Beautiful" and "Call Me By Your Name"
• Home to the Amalfi Coast
• Country that elected its first female P.M. in 2022
• Country that fully encloses two others
• European country where the Renaissance started
• Country mapped by Wellington?
• Winner of four World Cups
• Boot out of Europe?
• 2026 Olympics host country
• 2026 Olympics host